Western Civ Lessons for Team Trump

For at least the second time this year, Marco Rubio delivered a stirring speech championing the virtues of Western civilization — “a civilization,” he said on Wednesday from the Acropolis in Athens, “that we must fight to defend today with the same passion as our forefathers did.”

The same week, Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, announced that the Pentagon would livestream the execution of the Fort Hood killer. President Trump decided to buy diesel fuel directly from Russia, potentially amounting to billions in funding for Vladimir Putin’s war machine. And The Wall Street Journal reported that Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, is under investigation by the State Department’s inspector general for receiving improper........

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